Constance Frye Martinson (April 11, 1932 – March 9, 2023) was an American writer and television personality.
[1] A member of the National Book Critics Circle and PEN (Print & Electronic Network), she wrote a column for the weekly newspaper Beverly Hills Courier.
[2] Constance Frye graduated in 1953 from Wellesley College in Massachusetts with a bachelor of arts degree and was awarded the Davenport Prize for speech and literature.
The Connie Martinson Talks Books Collection, now donated to Claremont Graduate University, consists of nearly 3,000 television interviews (L.A. CityView Channel 35, Government-access television cable TV and PBS in New York City) with authors of fiction and nonfiction taped over the last 30 years.
[4] Interviews with a diverse group of best-selling authors include Matthew Pearl, Cathy Scott, Stanley Wolpert, Ved Mehta, Rod McKuen, Roger Cohen, and Vincent Bugliosi.